Is “open sourced” Google – a possibility

Placement Ranking Positioning writes “News on some interesting moves at google:
“There have been a lot of conversations in the company in the past two months about (how) . . . it’s time for us to give something back. So our technical director, Craig Silverstein, has started a project to look at all the Google code and start figuring out what parts of it we want to give back,” Rosing said.
“I’m not saying we’re going to open-source Google, because that would be a little dumb when we have these Microsoft guys making noise,” he said, referring to the practice of giving away the raw computer instructions to a software program.

He says it isn’t fair for Google to draw smart people from all over the world and “just keep it all for ourselves”.

June 24, 2004 by Uncategorized 0

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